Work-life balance retired in 2007 with the launch of the original iPhone. Virtually overnight, the world became connected at all hours and every day, in ways that weren’t previously possible. It’s only gotten worse since then. Today, “family time” too often includes obsessively checking e-mail, texts and voicemails, replying to…

How Dunkin’ Donuts just won the morning On the way in to work early this morning, I stopped by Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast. I do this regularly without event, but this time was a bit different. …

Choose to live by your schedule, not the inbox — Is your weekend really free if you find a crisis in the inbox Saturday morning that you can’t address until Monday morning? … You had time but you didn’t have attention, so the time had no practical value. Tim Ferris, The 4-Hour Workweek It’s almost hard to picture now, but…

“I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.” -Steve Jobs Steve Jobs chose not to live by many of the rules that govern our daily lives. What he did live by is a handful of principles that defined…

The story of my first website sale — While cleaning my office this morning, I happened across last years’ 20 Rising Stars Under 40 article. Skimming it again, I couldn’t help but laugh.

It’s a question I hear on an almost daily basis— should I create a responsive design or develop a separate mobile experience for my website? As CEO of a company that launched our own successful mobile website generator, you might think my preference would be for a mobile-only, “external” site. …

I love April Fools Day. The number of people who somehow forget that everything is a joke that day is staggering, and a lot of fun. Plus the faux ideas from pranking masters like ThinkGeek can be brilliant. This time around, the one that stood out to me was the Google+ “Hoff” filter, which purports to add pictures of David Hasselhoff automatically to pictures tagged with a hashtag. Fast forward to two days later, and it hit me that it would have been great to throw one of all of us in the office with “the Hoff” up on Facebook with the text “Wow, it works on Facebook too! #Hoffsome.”

Wikipedia “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” - Albert Einstein I started my first bona fide business as a sophomore in college. I’d…

Time is a non-renewable resource, spend it on what will have the biggest impact — Flickr: JuditK As entrepreneurs, we often have the habit of saying “yes” to things out of enthusiasm for the idea, the merit of the person bringing the concept to us, or just because we’re anxious to dive into something new. It’s in our DNA. It’s also often not the best approach. The highly successful generally are so…